Theory and Application of Harmonic Integrals

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…Hodge formulated in his book Theory and Application of Harmonic Integrals what became known as the Hodge conjecture: that for certain “nice” spaces (projective algebraic varieties), their complicated shapes can be covered (approximated) by a collection of simpler geometric pieces called algebraic cycles. The conjecture received little attention before he…

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